[Introduced January 27, 2011; referred to the Committee on Health
and Human Resources; then to the Committee on Finance; and then
to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact article 5, chapter 64 of the Code of
West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the
Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a
legislative rule relating to a safety and treatment program.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article 5, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931,
as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

The legislative rule filed in the state register on the
thirtieth day of July, two thousand ten, authorized under the
authority of section three, article five-a, chapter seventeen-c, of
this code, modified by the Department of Health and Human Resources
to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review
Committee and refiled in the state register on the third day of
December, two thousand ten, relating to the Department of Health
and Human Resources (safety and treatment program, 64 CSR 98), is
authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department
of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule
relating to a Safety and Treatment Program.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.